Dave Allen - The Good Earth / A Way of Life (1969) - YouTube Dave Allen - The Good Earth / A Way of Life (1969) Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Jul 2, 2012 A record by Irish comedian Dave Allen, popular on BBC television throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s, although this particular record is not a comic number. David Tynan O'Mahoney (6 July 1936 -- 10 March 2005), better known as Dave Allen, was an Irish comedian, very popular in the UK, Australia, and Canada in the 1960s and 1970s. He also became known in the United States through showings of his shows on American television. His career had a major resurgence during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

At the height of his career he was Britain's most controversial comedian, regularly provoking conservative indignation at his frequent highlighting of political hypocrisy and his disregard for religious authority. Allen's act was typified by his relaxed, rueful and intimate style; he would sit on a high bar stool facing his audience, smoking and occasionally sipping from a glass of what he always allowed people to assume was whisky, but in fact was merely ginger ale with ice. Literally and metaphorically, he was a sober-minded man who, though sometimes appearing deliberately crotchety and irritable on stage, always gave off an air of charm and serene melancholy both in his act and in real life. Each day he would pore over the newspapers, constantly scribbling notes and ideas which he then expanded for his routines. He was a religious skeptic (according to Allen himself, "what you might call a practising atheist", and often joked "I'm an atheist, thank God") as a result of his deeply held objections to the rigidity of his strict Catholic schooling. Consequently, religion became an important subject for his humour, especially the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England, generally mocking church customs and rituals rather than beliefs.

In 1998 he stated "The hierarchy of everything in my life has always bothered me. I'm bothered by power. People, whoever they might be, whether it's the government, or the policeman in the uniform, or the man on the door - they still irk me a bit. From school, from the first nun that belted me - people used to think of the nice sweet little ladies ... they used to knock the fuck out of you, in the most cruel way that they could. They'd find bits of your body that were vulnerable to intense pain - grabbing you by the ear, or by the nose, and lift you, and say 'Don't cry!' It's very hard not to cry. I mean, not from emotion, but pain. The priests were the same. And I sit and watch politicians with great cynicism, total cynicism." At the end of his act Allen would always raise his glass and quietly toast his audience with the words "Goodnight, thank you, and may your God go with you", an original and inclusive catchphrase that typified Allen's amiable style. Along with his seated stand-up routines, his television shows were interspersed with filmed sketch comedy.

Highly regarded in Britain, Allen's comic technique and style had a lasting influence on many young British comedians. His targets were often figures of authority, his style was observational rather than gag-driven, and his language frequently ripe; he was a progenitor for the "alternative" comedians of the 1980s. In Ireland, however, he always remained somewhat controversial because of his mocking of the Catholic Church. Category Dave Allen (comedian) Dave Allen (comedian) Allen as the host of the CBS programme Showtime in 1968. Born The Dave Allen Show, Dave Allen at Large Religion Judith Stott ( m.

1964–83) divorced Karin Stark (2003-2005) Jane Tynan O’Mahony (born 1965) Edward James Tynan O’Mahony (born 1968) Cullum Eden Tynan O’Mahony (born 2005) [1] David Tynan O’Mahony (6 July 1936 – 10 March 2005), better known as Dave Allen, was an Irish observational comedian [2] and satirist . [3] Initially becoming known in Australia during 1963–64, Allen made regular television appearances in the United Kingdom from the later 1960s and until the mid 1980s. BBC aired his “Dave Allen Show” 1972-1986, [4] which also was exported to several other European countries. [5] His career had a major resurgence during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

At the height of his career he was Britain’s most controversial comedian, regularly provoking indignation at his frequent highlighting of political hypocrisy and his disregard for religious authority. He also became known in the United States and Canada through broadcasts of his shows on television there. Contents 9 External links Act Allen’s act was typified by a relaxed, rueful and intimate style. He sat on a high bar stool facing his audience, smoking and occasionally sipping from a glass of what he always allowed people to assume was whiskey , but in fact was merely ginger ale with ice. Literally and metaphorically, he was a sober-minded man who, though sometimes appearing deliberately crotchety and irritable on stage, always gave off an air of charm and serene melancholy both in his act and in real life. Each day, he pored over newspapers, scribbling notes and ideas for his routines. Along with his seated stand-up routines, his television shows were interspersed with filmed sketch comedy .

Religious views He was a religious sceptic [6] (according to Allen, “what you might call a practising atheist “, and often joked, “I’m an atheist, thank God”) as a result of his deeply held objections to the rigidity of his strict Catholic schooling. Consequently, religion became an important subject for his humour, especially the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England , generally mocking church customs and rituals rather than beliefs. In 1998 he explained: The hierarchy of everything in my life has always bothered me. I’m bothered by power. People, whoever they might be, whether it’s the government, or the policeman in the uniform, or the man on the door – they still irk me a bit. From school, from the first nun that belted me – people used to think of the nice sweet little ladies … they used to knock the fuck out of you, in the most cruel way that they could. They’d find bits of your body that were vulnerable to intense pain – grabbing you by the ear, or by the nose, and lift you, and say ‘Don’t cry!’ It’s very hard not to cry. I mean, not from emotion, but pain. The priests were the same.

And I sit and watch politicians with great cynicism, total cynicism. At the end of his act, Allen always raised his glass and quietly toasted his audience with the words “Goodnight, thank you, and may your God go with you,” [7] an original and inclusive catchphrase that typified Allen’s amiable style. Influence on others Highly regarded in Britain, Allen’s comic technique and style had a lasting influence on many young British comedians. [8] His targets were often figures of authority, his style was observational rather than gag-driven, and his language frequently ripe; as such he was a progenitor for the “alternative” comedians of the 1980s. In his native Ireland, he always remained somewhat controversial. His mocking of the Catholic Church made him unpopular amongst some Irish Catholics , while his mocking of the extremist Ulster Protestant leader Ian Paisley made him unpopular amongst many Protestants in Northern Ireland .

Early life and career David Tynan O’Mahony was born in Firhouse , Dublin , Ireland, the youngest of three sons [9] of Cully Tynan O’Mahony (Gerard J Cullen O’Mahony; resident in Tallaght Town with mother Nora O’Mahony, neé Tynan. Father John O’Mahony, a practicing barrister from Co. Cork is in the 1901 Census, resident in Cookstown, Tallaght.), managing editor of The Irish Times , [10] and an English mother, Jean Archer. [11] His brothers were John and Peter. [9] O’Mahony left school aged sixteen, after attending the secondary schools Newbridge College , Terenure College and the Catholic University School and followed his father into journalism . He joined the Drogheda Argus as a copy-boy, and went to London , aged nineteen. He drifted through a series of jobs, before becoming a Butlins Redcoat at Skegness in a troupe that also included the British jazz trumpeter and writer John Chilton .

At the end of each summer season, he did stand-ups at strip clubs and for the next four years he appeared in night clubs , theatres and working men’s clubs. When entertainment work was slow he sold toys in a Sheffield store and also worked as a door-to-door draught excluder salesman. He changed his stage surname to “Allen” on the prompting of his agent, who believed that few British people could pronounce “O’Mahony” correctly. Allen himself hoped that a surname beginning with “A” would put him at the top of any agent’s list. Allen lost the top of his left forefinger above the middle knuckle after catching it in a machine cog. [12] However, he enjoyed inventing stories to explain the loss, which became a minor part of his act. One version was that his brother John had surprised him by snapping his jaw shut when they were children, resulting in him biting it off. A further explanation he gave on his programme, Dave Allen at Large, was that he often stuck his finger in his whiskey glass, and it had been eaten away by strong drink. He also said it was worn away from repeatedly brushing the dust from his suit.

One of his stand-up jokes was that, when he was a boy, he and his friends would go see a cowboy movie at the local cinema, then come out all ready to play Cowboys and Indians. Staring down at his truncated finger, he would mutter, “I had a sawn-off shotgun.” On his show he told a long, elaborate ghost story, ending with “something evil” attacking Allen in a dark and haunted house. Allen grabbed and bit the attacker, the studio lights came back up, and it was his own left hand. Allen had his first television appearance on the BBC talent show New Faces in 1959. [13] He hosted pop music shows in the early 1960s, including tours by Adam Faith and Helen Shapiro , [14] and in early 1963 was the compère of a tour of Britain headlined by Helen Shapiro that also included The Beatles , then starting to become well known. In 1962 he toured South Africa with American vaudeville star Sophie Tucker , whom he described as “one of the most charming and delightful performers with whom I have ever worked”. Tucker was impressed with him and suggested to him that he try his luck in Australia.

Moving there, he worked with Digby Wolfe on Australian television, becoming Wolfe’s resident comedian. While on tour in Australia in 1963, he quickly proved successful and accepted an offer to headline a television talk show with Channel 9 , Tonight with Dave Allen, which proved successful. However, only six months after his television début he was banned from the Australian airwaves when, during a live broadcast, he told his show’s producer — who had been pressing him to go to a commercial break — to “go away and masturbate” so that he could continue an entertaining interview with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore . The ban was dropped quietly while Allen’s popularity continued unabated. Allen returned to the United Kingdom in 1964 and made a variety of appearances on ITV , including The Blackpool Show, Val Parnell ‘s Sunday Night at the London Palladium and on the BBC on The Val Doonican Show . In 1967 Allen hosted his own comedy/chat series, Tonight with Dave Allen, made by ATV , which earned him the Variety Club’s ITV Personality of the Year Award.

Peak and later years He signed with the BBC in 1968 and appeared on The Dave Allen Show, a variety/comedy sketch series. This was followed, from 1971 to 1979, by Dave Allen at Large. The theme tune for The Dave Allen Show and Dave Allen at Large, written by Alan Hawkshaw , was “Blarney’s Stoned” (originally recorded for KPM in 1969 under the title “Studio 69″). [15] The shows introduced his solo joke-telling-while-sitting-on-a-stool-and-drinking routine. This stand-up routine by Allen led to sketches that continued the themes touched on in the preceding monologues. Meanwhile, he began to appear in theatre. In 1972 he acted as a Doctor in the Royal Court ‘s production of Edna O’Brien ‘s play A Pagan Place. With family friend Maggie Smith [9] in the lead, he appeared in Peter Pan in a run during 1973 [16] and 1974. Allen performed as both Mr Darling and Captain Hook in the production at the London Coliseum .

[17] Allen made The Dave Allen Show in Australia (1975–1977) for his old employers, Channel 9. Allen was also a social commentator, appearing in several television documentaries for ITV, beginning with Dave Allen in the Melting Pot (1969), looking at life in New York City and dealing with issues such as racism and drugs. Later programmes included Dave Allen in Search of the Great English Eccentric (1974) and Eccentrics at Play (1974), in which he looked at colourful characters with idiosyncratic passions. [18] Allen’s satirising of religious ritual, especially Catholic, throughout each episode of Dave Allen at Large caused minor controversy, which coupled with sometimes comparatively frank material, earned the show a risqué reputation. In 1977, the Irish state broadcaster RTÉ placed a de facto ban on Allen.

Routines included sketches showing the pope (played by Allen) and his cardinals doing a striptease to music (“ The Stripper “) on the steps of St Peter’s , aggressive priests beating their parishioners and other priests, priests who spoke like Daleks through electronic confessionals, and an extremely excitable Pope who spoke in a Chico Marx style accent as he ordered Allen to “getta your bum outta Roma!” [19] In 1979 he played a troubled property man suffering a mid-life crisis in Alan Bennett ‘s television play One Fine Day. [20] New seasons of the comedy series, now titled Dave Allen, were broadcast from 1981 until 1990. His final series for the BBC in 1990 caused controversy with a joke: “We spend our lives on the run. We get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, go to work by the clock, get up again, go to work – and then we retire. And what do they fucking give us? A clock.” [21] [22] [23] This prompted MP Robert Hayward to ask a parliamentary question about “offensive language” in broadcasting.

[21] [22] In 1993, Allen returned to ITV, where he starred in the Dave Allen Show, which was his final regular television series. By the late 1990s, Allen was living quietly in semi-retirement at home in Holland Park , west London. A keen amateur artist, he continued to exhibit his paintings. [6] He had given up cigarettes in the 1980s, having smoked regularly during earlier television appearances. A comedy skit in 1994 talked not only about quitting smoking, but hating the smell of smoke. The 90s saw him make occasional chat show appearances and discussed his career in the six-part The Unique Dave Allen (BBC, 1998), in between clips from his past BBC series. As he grew older, he brought a rueful awareness of ageing to his material, with reflections on the antics of teenagers and the sagging skin and sprouting facial hair of age. He was presented with a lifetime achievement award at the British Comedy Awards in 1996. Personal life In 1964, Allen married actress Judith Stott, whom he had met in Australia.

The marriage ended in divorce in 1983. Their son, Edward James Tynan O’Mahony (professionally Ed Allen), is also a comedian. Allen’s hobbies included painting, which he became increasingly enthusiastic about in his later years. His first exhibition, Private Views, was held in Edinburgh in 2001. He died peacefully in his sleep at his home in Kensington , London, in 2005 at the age of 68. He was survived by Karin Tynan O’Mahony (née Stark), his wife of eighteen months but who had been his partner since 1986, [9] and his three children from his first marriage: his children Edward and Jane, and his stepson Jonathan, [24] a son of his first wife. Three weeks after Allen’s death, Karin gave birth to their son, Cullum. Bibliography Graham McCann (ed.) The Essential Dave Allen London: Hodder & Stoughton , 2005. ISBN 0-340-89945-X [ Amazon-US | Amazon-UK ].

Carolyn Soutar Dave Allen: The Biography London: Orion , 2005. ISBN 0752873814 [ Amazon-US | Amazon-UK ]. References Dave Allen (comedian) : definition of Dave Allen (comedian) and synonyms of Dave Allen (comedian) (English) Edward James Tynan O'Mahoney (born 1968) Callum Eden O'Mahoney (born 2005) David Tynan O'Mahoney (6 July 1936 – 10 March 2005), better known as Dave Allen, was an Irish comedian , very popular in the UK , Australia , and Canada in the 1960s and 1970s. He also became known in the United States through showings of his shows on American television. His career had a major resurgence during the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the height of his career he was Britain's most controversial comedian, regularly provoking conservative indignation at his frequent highlighting of political hypocrisy and his disregard for religious authority.

Allen's act was typified by his relaxed, rueful and intimate style; he would sit on a high bar stool facing his audience, smoking and occasionally sipping from a glass of what he always allowed people to assume was whisky , but in fact was merely ginger ale with ice. Literally and metaphorically, he was a sober-minded man who, though sometimes appearing deliberately crotchety and irritable on stage, always gave off an air of charm and serene melancholy both in his act and in real life. Each day he would pore over the newspapers, constantly scribbling notes and ideas which he then expanded for his routines. He was a religious skeptic [1] (according to Allen himself, "what you might call a practising atheist ", and often joked "I'm an atheist, thank God") as a result of his deeply held objections to the rigidity of his strict Catholic schooling. Consequently, religion became an important subject for his humour, especially the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England , generally mocking church customs and rituals rather than beliefs. In 1998 he stated "The hierarchy of everything in my life has always bothered me. I'm bothered by power.

People, whoever they might be, whether it's the government, or the policeman in the uniform, or the man on the door - they still irk me a bit. From school, from the first nun that belted me - people used to think of the nice sweet little ladies ... they used to knock the fuck out of you, in the most cruel way that they could. They'd find bits of your body that were vulnerable to intense pain - grabbing you by the ear, or by the nose, and lift you, and say 'Don't cry!' It's very hard not to cry. I mean, not from emotion, but pain. The priests were the same. And I sit and watch politicians with great cynicism, total cynicism." At the end of his act Allen would always raise his glass and quietly toast his audience with the words "Goodnight, thank you, and may your God go with you", an original and inclusive catchphrase that typified Allen's amiable style. Along with his seated stand-up routines, his television shows were interspersed with filmed sketch comedy . Highly regarded in Britain, Allen's comic technique and style had a lasting influence on many young British comedians.

[2] His targets were often figures of authority, his style was observational rather than gag-driven, and his language frequently ripe; he was a progenitor for the "alternative" comedians of the 1980s. In Ireland, however, he always remained somewhat controversial because of his mocking of the Catholic Church. Contents 6 External links Career Born in Firhouse , Dublin , Ireland , the son of Cully Tynan O'Mahoney, managing editor of The Irish Times , and an English mother, David O'Mahoney left school aged sixteen, after attending the secondary schools Newbridge College , Terenure College and the Catholic University School and followed his father into journalism . He joined the Drogheda Argus as a copy-boy, and went to London , aged nineteen. He drifted through a series of jobs before becoming a Butlins Redcoat at Skegness in a troupe that also included the British jazz trumpeter and writer John Chilton , and hosting pop music shows. At the end of the summer season, he did stand-ups at strip clubs and for the next four years he appeared in night clubs, theatres and working men's clubs.

When entertainment work was slow he sold toys in a Sheffield store and also worked as a door-to-door draught-excluder salesman. He changed his stage surname to "Allen" on the prompting of his agent, who believed that few English people would be able to pronounce "O'Mahoney" correctly. Allen had lost the top of his left index finger above the middle knuckle, after catching it in a machine cog. However, he enjoyed telling many differing stories as to how that happened and this became a minor part of his act. One version was that his brother John had surprised him by snapping his jaw shut when they were children, resulting in him biting it off. Another was that it was done deliberately to avoid National Service. A further explanation he gave on his programme Dave Allen at Large was that he often stuck his finger in his whisky glass and it had been eaten away by "strong drink". He also said the cause was repeated brushing down the dust from his suit with his hand causing the finger to be worn away. One of his memorable stand-up jokes was that, when he was a boy, he and his friends would go see a cowboy movie at the local theatre, then come out all ready to play "Cowboys and Indians".

Staring down at his truncated finger, he'd mutter, "I had a sawn-off shotgun." On his show he told a long, elaborate ghost story , ending with "something evil" attacking Allen in a dark and haunted house. Allen grabbed and bit the attacker, the studio lights came back up, and it was his own left hand. Allen had his first television appearance on the BBC talent show New Faces in 1959. In early 1962 he was the compère of a pop music tour of England headlined by Helen Shapiro that also included The Beatles , then little known. In 1962 he also toured South Africa with American vaudeville star Sophie Tucker , whom he described as "one of the most charming and delightful performers with whom I have ever worked". Tucker was impressed with him and suggested to him that he tried his luck in Australia. Moving there, he worked with Digby Wolfe on Australian TV, becoming Wolfe's resident comedian. While on tour in Australia in 1963, he quickly proved successful and accepted an offer to headline a television talk show with Channel 9 , Tonight with Dave Allen, which was very popular.

However, only six months after his television début he was banned from the Australian airwaves when, during a live broadcast, he told his show's producer — who had been pressing him to go to a commercial break — to "go away and masturbate" so that he could continue an entertaining interview with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore . The ban was dropped quietly when Allen's popularity continued unabated. In 1964 he married actress Judith Stott, whom he had met whilst in Australia. The marriage ended in divorce in 1983. Their son, Edward James O'Mahoney (professionally Ed Allen), is also a comedian. Allen returned to the United Kingdom in 1964 and made a variety of appearances on ITV , including The Blackpool Show, Val Parnell 's Sunday Night at the London Palladium and on the BBC on The Val Doonican Show . In 1967 Allen hosted his own comedy/chat series, Tonight with Dave Allen, which earned him the Variety Club's ITV Personality of the Year Award. He signed with the BBC in 1968 and appeared on The Dave Allen Show, a variety/comedy sketch series.

This was followed, 1971–79, by Dave Allen at Large , which introduced his trademark solo joke-telling-while-sitting-on-a-stool-and-drinking routine. This standup routine by Allen led to handsomely mounted sketches that continued the themes touched on in the preceding monologues. Allen's trademark satirising of religious ritual, especially Catholic, throughout each episode caused minor controversy, which coupled with sometimes comparatively frank material, earned the show a risqué reputation. In 1977, the Irish state television network RTE placed a de facto ban on Allen. Routines included sketches showing the pope (played by Allen himself) and his cardinals doing a striptease to music on the steps of St Peter's , aggressive priests beating their parishioners and other priests, priests who spoke like Daleks through electronic confessionals, and an extremely excitable pope who spoke in a Chico Marx style accent as he ordered Allen to "getta your bum outta Roma!" [3] New seasons of the series, renamed Dave Allen in 1981, were made until 1990.

In the same period, Allen also made The Dave Allen Show in Australia (1975–1977) for his old employers, Channel 9 in Australia. His final series for the BBC in 1990 caused considerable controversy because of the strong language that Allen used freely (in contrast to all his earlier BBC series), and his behaviour was even raised in the House of Commons . [4] [5] In 1993, he returned to ITV, where he starred in the Dave Allen show, which was to be his final regular television series. By the late 1990s Allen was in semi-retirement, though he made occasional chat show appearances and presented the six-part The Unique Dave Allen (BBC, 1998), in which he talked about his career in between clips and extracts from his past series for the BBC . As he grew older, he brought a rueful awareness of ageing to his material, with reflections on the antics of teenagers and the sagging skin and sprouting facial hair of age. He was presented with a lifetime achievement award at the British Comedy Awards in 1996. Allen's hobbies included painting , which he became increasingly enthusiastic about in his later years.

His first exhibition, Private Views, was held in Edinburgh in 2001. Other television and theatrical work Allen made several serious television documentaries , including Dave Allen in the Melting Pot (1969), In Search of the Great Eccentrics (1974) and Eccentrics at Play (1974), all made for ITV . He also had a successful stage career. In 1972 he starred in The Royal Court 's production of Edna O'Brien 's play A Pagan Place, and appeared as both Mr Darling and Captain Hook in the London Coliseum 's production of Peter Pan . In 1979 he played a troubled property man suffering a mid-life crisis in Alan Bennett 's television play One Fine Day. Death Allen lived quietly in Holland Park , west London , in semi-retirement while enjoying the regular company of his close friends and devoted family. A keen amateur artist, he continued to exhibit his paintings. [1] He had given up cigarettes, which he had smoked regularly during his television appearances in the 1970s. He died peacefully in his sleep in 2005 at the age of 68.

He was survived by Karin O'Mahoney (née Stark), his wife of eighteen months, and by his three children from his first marriage, Edward, Jonathan and Jane. Six weeks after his death, Karin gave birth to a son, Callum. Bibliography Graham McCann (ed.) The Essential Dave Allen London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2005 ISBN 0-340-89945-X References ^ a b Last Updated: 11:47PM GMT 11 Mar 2005 (11 March 2005). "Dave Allen obituary" . Telegraph.co.uk. . Retrieved 29 May 2009. Signing Off Catch Phrase - TV Tropes Signing Off Catch Phrase You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account Share "Good night, and good luck." — Edward R. Murrow, legendary CBS news anchor Closing out an episode or segment by way of something repeated by the host of a show or a character. This is very common in News Broadcasts , to help set the reporters and anchors apart from the crowd.

It can often overlap with That's All, Folks! (if it's the outright end of the show) or The Stinger . open/close all folders Advertising Tony Cavolo usually ended commercials for his pizza restaurant chain Peter Piper Pizza by encouraging viewers to "Come on over, to Peter Piper Pizza!" Local El Paso, Texas business Popular Mattress: "Thank you very much, y muchas gracias." "Silly rabbit! Trix are for kids!"note Although the rabbit would say one last thing before the actual end of the commercials. Local Connecticut business Bob's Discount Furniture once used "Come on down!" as one. This hasn't been done in the last few years, though. It hasn't been done for quite some time, but toy commercials once concluded by saying that their product was "(new) from [company]", overlapping with Mad Libs Catchphrase . BY MARX!!! "It's Kenner ! It's fun! Awwwk!" John Moschitta Jr.

for Micro Machines : "Remember, if it doesn't say Micro Machines, it's not the real thing!" note Or rather, "REMEMBERIFITDOESNTSAYMICROMACHINES , it't not the real thing!" When he was doing his promos for MTV , Denis Leary often (but not always) ended them by saying some variation of "I think you hear me knockin', and I think I'm comin' in!", followed by some final word related to what he was talking about. In Japan , a commercial for a "new product" will usually end with "shin hatsubai" or "hatsubai chu" note Which literally translates as "new product" as previously mentioned, but can also be interpreted as "Now on sale" in the case of the latter, the former prominently used in the 70's to mid 80's. Other variations of the latter also exist.

Radio ads for Motel 6 end with spokesman Tom Bodett saying, "we'll leave the light on for ya."note In older ads, this was rendered as "I'm Tom Bodett for Motel 6, and we'll leave the light on for ya." Anime & Manga The end credits for Sore ga Seiyuu! are set up as the main characters closing out their weekly radio show and ends with the line "Well everyone, see you next week! Good night!". Every episode of Space Battleship Yamato ended with the on-screen text, "Earth has [X] days to live". Comedy While it doesn't happen on every track, The Smothers Brothers would conclude a number of them on their album Aesop's Fables the Smothers Brothers Way with Dick saying "That's a good thing to a remember.", followed by Tom saying "Even if your not [various]" (although, this does become a Running Gag later on). Film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy : "Stay Classy, San Diego".

"Go fuck yourself, San Diego." Lampshaded and discussed in Bruce Almighty , when Bruce, who's gunning for an anchor job, remarks that he should come up with his own "signature sign-off" like "all the great anchors" had, using Walter Cronkite 's (see below) as an example. He does eventually come up with his own: "And that's the way the cookie crumbles." The Truman Show offers a variation in that after finding out that his whole life is a lie and reaching the edge of his world (as far as the set goes) and confronting the director about how his life has been a lie he uses his usual catchphrase to sign off Beat "...In case I don't see ya, good morning, good afternoon, good evening and good night" Live Action TV The Amanda Show would end with Amanda Bynes coming out on stage and saying "That's our show, I've gotta ( insert funny/nonsensical action here ). See ya!" American Idol : "Seacrest out!", borrowed from his radio show, and eventually dropped due to widespread ridicule.

America's Funniest Home Videos : Bob Saget would always say, "Keep those cameras safely rolling," and follow it up with, "Honey...*insert comment to wife here*"note though the last two episodes of the series did not feature this since his marriage was in the process of falling apart . Tom Bergeron's was "If you get it on tape, you could get it in cash." Eventually, it became "Upload to us! Get rich! Get famous!" America's Most Wanted : Host John Walsh would end every episode with "Until next time, I'm John Walsh, you've been watching Fox, and remember, you can make a difference!" to remind the viewers they could help the show's premise to catch dangerous criminals. Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

: Contestants would be prompted to say "My name is [X], and I am not smarter than a fifth grader." (Or "am smarter than a fifth grader" if they managed to win the top prize.) A number of contestants would insert their occupation or one of their accomplishments in the middle (probably in an attempt to save face in the case of losing), in the form of "My name is [X], and I may be [Y], but I am not smarter than a fifth grader." Bill Nye the Science Guy would almost always end an episode in the same place the episode started . He'd also add "Well, that's our show! Thanks for watching! Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to go [do some activity related to the episode's subject]." Kristen Holt/Kristen Adams on G4's Cheat! would end every episode with "Until next time I'm Kristen Holt and you've been cheating." When the show was cancelled and demoted to a segment on X-Play she still ended the segment with the same sign off.

During Charles Osgood's tenure as host from 1994 to 2016 on CBS News Sunday Morning, he would always sign off with "Please join us again next Sunday morning. Until then, I'll see you on the radio.". Once Jane Pauley succeeded him, she instead signs off with "Please join us when our trumpet sounds again next Sunday morning.". Concentration : Hugh Downs and Bob Clayton signed off with "So long, and thanks for playing Concentration!" The Daily Show : "Here it is, your moment of zen." Stewart joked that he wanted "Keep fucking that chicken" to be his Signing Off Catch Phrase , but Ernie Anastos stole it. On Stewart's last-ever episode of the show, he instead closed with, "Here it is, my moment of zen," with said moment turning out to be Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band giving the show a Dance Party Ending to "Land of Hope and Dreams" and "Born to Run". Dave Allen At Large: "Good night, thank you, and may your God go with you." "For now, Dick Clark ," *salute* "so long!" The syndicated U.S. edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

with Cedric The Entertainer as host had him signing off with "Watch your wallet!". The Wil Wheaton Project: "Until next time-play more games!" Les Nessman of WKRP in Cincinnati eventually ended his news broadcasts with, "This is Les Nessman, saying, 'May the good news be yours.'" (A sign-off borrowed from real-life Miami news anchor Ralph Renick.) X-Play had "Game Over" for a while. Tom Kennedy: "It's not what you say that counts, it's what You Don't Say! !" Zacherley would end shows with "Good night, whatever you are!", in mockery of Jimmy Durante (see below.) Most Game Shows end with the announcer saying "This has been a *name of production company * production." Mark Lamarr used to end Never Mind the Buzzcocks with the Mad Libs Catchphrase "I've been Mark Lamarr, and [song lyric beginning "I", possibly misquoted]": I've been Mark Lamarr, and I ain't afraid of no ghosts. I've been Mark Lamarr, and I'm gonna party like it's 1998. I've been Mark Lamarr, but I've never been to me.

News For many years on ABC's 20/20 , one of the anchors, usually Hugh Downs, ended each broadcast by saying, "We're in touch, so you'll be in touch." ABC's Nightline ends with something to the effect of, "Watch Good Morning America tomorrow. They're working while you're sleeping." Walter Winchell always began , "Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. North and South America and all the ships at sea! Let's go to press!" and ended with "And so, with lotions of love note His sponsor was Jergens, which still makes a full line of creams and moisturizers. this is your New York correspondent, Walter Winchell, who knows that all the lights on Broadway are never as bright as the candle in the window when you come home!" When he was in Florida, he would say "Miami Beach" instead of New York. Most broadcasts of the Philippine evening newscast TV Patrol ends with one of the anchors (Mostly Ted Failon or Noli De Castro) saying "Maraming Salamat at Magandang gabi, Bayan!" note Thank you and Good night, Nation!

In recent times, this is after the last talks between the anchors related to the last report of that episode. During World War II , news broadcasts kind of suspended the greetings/signoff thing as the news roundup came into being and reporters in key hotspots just gave matter-of-fact accounts of what they saw and heard. CBS' Roger Mudd has more about this in his book The Place To Be. Podcasts The Scathing Atheist and its multiple spinoff shows have some unique ones. At the end of headlines, Heath is prone to shouting the names of games. This started with "Jumanji!", usually, and then moved on to "Boggle!" or "Scrabble!" Heath Enwright lampshades this by ending every episode of the Skepticrat with "Catchphrase Signoff." The signoff for God Awful Movies are variations on a man from Brooklyn telling you to go fuck yourself . Professional Wrestling Some pro wrestlers do this at the end of their promos. Examples: Hulk Hogan : Whatcha gonna do when Hulkamania runs wild on YOU?

(among many variations) Dave Allen – God's Own Comedian, BBC2, review - Telegraph TV and Radio reviews Dave Allen – God's Own Comedian, BBC2, review The wonderful wit and creativity of comedian Dave Allen is remembered in a fine BBC Two tribute programme 4 By Martin Chilton , Culture Editor online 10:10AM GMT 28 Dec 2014 Follow Stuck in traffic one day, Dave Allen watched a road sweeper at work and imagined, as the man reached a street corner, that the labourer could lift up the paving slabs and brush the rubbish under the stones. The idea was turned into a funny sketch for one of his TV shows. Allen had that sort of original mind. In Dave Allen – God's Own Comedian, his second wife Karin recalled some of the scraps of paper on which he had written seemingly bizarre notes such as "hypnotised chickens" that would later become classic skits. Allen died, aged 68, on March 10, 2005, and this excellent BBC show gathered family members, colleagues such as playwright Stephen Berkoff and friend and actress Maggie Smith to talk about the witty Irishman.

At home, his childhood was a nourishing one (his open-hearted father, the Managing Editor of The Irish Times, delighted in storytelling) but at school he was subject to the teaching of narrow-minded and often violent nuns. He would pay them back in his comedy. As a young man he moved from the family home near Dublin to try his hand at journalism. When that failed to work out, he spent time as a redcoat. My own father worked with him at Skegness Butlins, where the young David Tynan O'Mahoney, as he then was, enjoyed singing Hi-Lo's songs with the holiday camp band. They met up in London after the holiday season ended and went to see a Marx Brothers film at the Classic Cinema in Baker Street. Allen was at a low point, wondering how he could really make his mark. He said he thought he would try his luck in Australia. Down Under he came up trumps, using the stage name Dave Allen. Related Articles 40 quotes about life (for a pessimist) 11 Feb 2016 The documentary showed footage from 1963 of him on Australian TV and you can already see the confidence he had gained.

When he returned to England, as a married man, he was sought-after. From 1967 to 1994 he regularly had his own shows on ITV and BBC. He would sit on a stool, cigarette in hand, sipping a drink (it was ginger ale) and delivering clever and funny monologues. His gentle voice and subtle wordplay belied controversial comedy. His shows were subversive. He mocked and offended the Catholic Church, resulting in a ban by Irish TV and death threats from the IRA. As comedian Mark Thomas pointed out, Allen was satirising Apartheid long before alternative comedians. Allen was known for two other things: ending shows with the words "goodnight, thank you and may your God go with you", and for making jokes about his missing finger. He never gave the same account of how he had lost his finger. But there was more to Allen than stand-up. He was a fine stage actor – appearing in Alan Bennett's One Fine Day – and a pioneering documentary film presenter. His series Eccentrics at Play laid ground for territory Louis Theroux would later explore.

The documentary was also good at showing the man away from the camera, an erudite and loving father and husband, happy lounging about in scruffy clothes and doing some watercolours. As his wife said, Allen was both ordinary and extraordinary. When the Telegraph's Theatre Critic Charles Spencer reviewed Allen's one-man show in 1993, he wrote: "His baffled humanity, his perplexity in the face of life's mysteries and irritations, are the qualities that make him such a fine and sometimes moving comedian. He's a blaspheming atheist on the side of the angels." This programme was a worthy tribute. - Matt Monro - The singers singer - Spotlight on …… Dave Allen Initially becoming known in Australia during 1963–64, Dave Allen made regular television appearances in the United Kingdom in the later 1960s and 1970s. His career had a major resurgence during the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the height of his career he was Britain's most controversial comedian, regularly provoking indignation at his frequent highlighting of political hypocrisy and his disregard for religious authority.

He also became known in the United States and Canada through broadcasts of his shows on television there. Allen's act was typified by a relaxed, rueful and intimate style; he would sit on a high bar stool facing his audience, smoking and occasionally sipping from a glass of what he always allowed people to assume was whiskey, but in fact was merely ginger ale with ice. Literally and metaphorically, he was a sober-minded man who, though sometimes appearing deliberately crotchety and irritable on stage, always gave off an air of charm and serene melancholy both in his act and in real life. Each day he would pore over the newspapers, constantly scribbling notes and ideas which he then expanded for his routines. He was a religious sceptic (according to Allen, "what you might call a practising atheist", and often joked, "I'm an atheist, thank God") as a result of his deeply held objections to the rigidity of his strict Catholic schooling. Consequently, religion became an important subject for his humour, especially the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England, generally mocking church customs and rituals rather than beliefs. In 1998 he stated: "The hierarchy of everything in my life has always bothered me.

I'm bothered by power. People, whoever they might be, whether it's the government, or the policeman in the uniform, or the man on the door - they still irk me a bit. From school, from the first nun that belted me - people used to think of the nice sweet little ladies … they used to knock the fuck out of you, in the most cruel way that they could. They'd find bits of your body that were vulnerable to intense pain - grabbing you by the ear, or by the nose, and lift you, and say 'Don't cry!' It's very hard not to cry. I mean, not from emotion, but pain. The priests were the same. And I sit and watch politicians with great cynicism, total cynicism." At the end of his act Allen would always raise his glass and quietly toast his audience with the words "Thank you, goodnight and may your God go with you", an original and inclusive catchphrase that typified Allen's amiable style. Along with his seated stand-up routines, his television shows were interspersed with filmed sketch comedy. Highly regarded in Britain, Allen's comic technique and style had a lasting influence on many young British comedians.

His targets were often figures of authority, his style was observational rather than gag-driven, and his language frequently ripe; as such he was a progenitor for the "alternative" comedians of the 1980s. In his native Ireland, he always remained somewhat controversial. His mocking of the Catholic Church made him unpopular amongst Irish Catholics, while his mocking of the extremist Ulster Protestant leader Ian Paisley made him unpopular amongst many Protestants in Northern Ireland. Born in Firhouse, Dublin, Ireland, the youngest of three sons of Cully Tynan O'Mahony, managing editor of The Irish Times, and an English mother, Jean Archer. His brothers were John and Peter. David Tynan O'Mahony left school aged sixteen, after attending the secondary schools Newbridge College, Terenure College and the Catholic University School and followed his father into journalism. He joined the Drogheda Argus as a copy-boy, and went to London, aged nineteen. He drifted through a series of jobs, before becoming a Butlins Redcoat at Skegness in a troupe that also included the British jazz trumpeter and writer John Chilton.

At the end of each summer season, he did stand-ups at strip clubs and for the next four years he appeared in night clubs, theatres and working men's clubs. When entertainment work was slow he sold toys in a Sheffield store and also worked as a door-to-door draught excluder salesman. He changed his stage surname to "Allen" on the prompting of his agent, who believed that few British people would be able to pronounce "O'Mahony" correctly. Allen himself hoped that a surname beginning with "A" would put him at the top of any agent's list. Allen lost the top of his left forefinger above the middle knuckle, after catching it in a machine cog. However, he enjoyed telling many differing stories as to how that happened and this became a minor part of his act. One version was that his brother John had surprised him by snapping his jaw shut when they were children, resulting in him biting it off. A further explanation he gave on his programme Dave Allen at Large was that he often stuck his finger in his whiskey glass and it had been eaten away by "strong drink". He also said the cause was repeated brushing down the dust from his suit with his hand causing the finger to be worn away.

One of his stand-up jokes was that, when he was a boy, he and his friends would go see a cowboy movie at the local cinema, then come out all ready to play "Cowboys and Indians". Staring down at his truncated finger, he would mutter, "I had a sawn-off shotgun." On his show he told a long, elaborate ghost story, ending with "something evil" attacking Allen in a dark and haunted house. Allen grabbed and bit the attacker, the studio lights came back up, and it was his own left hand. Allen had his first television appearance on the BBC talent show New Faces in 1959.[7] He hosted pop music shows in the early 1960s, including tours by Adam Faith and Helen Shapiro,[8] and in early 1963 was the compère of a tour of Britain headlined by Helen Shapiro that also included The Beatles, then starting to become well-known. In 1962 he toured South Africa with American vaudeville star Sophie Tucker, whom he described as "one of the most charming and delightful performers with whom I have ever worked". Tucker was impressed with him and suggested to him that he try his luck in Australia.

Moving there, he worked with Digby Wolfe on Australian television, becoming Wolfe's resident comedian. While on tour in Australia in 1963, he quickly proved successful and accepted an offer to headline a television talk show with Channel 9, Tonight with Dave Allen, which proved successful. However, only six months after his television début he was banned from the Australian airwaves when, during a live broadcast, he told his show's producer — who had been pressing him to go to a commercial break — to "go away and masturbate" so that he could continue an entertaining interview with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. The ban was dropped quietly when Allen's popularity continued unabated. Allen returned to the United Kingdom in 1964 and made a variety of appearances on ITV, including The Blackpool Show, Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium and on the BBC on The Val Doonican Show. In 1967 Allen hosted his own comedy/chat series, Tonight with Dave Allen, made by ATV, which earned him the Variety Club's ITV Personality of the Year Award. He signed with the BBC in 1968 and appeared on The Dave Allen Show, a variety/comedy sketch series.

This was followed, 1971–79, by Dave Allen at Large. The shows introduced his solo joke-telling-while-sitting-on-a-stool-and-drinking routine. This stand-up routine by Allen led to sketches that continued the themes touched on in the preceding monologues. Meanwhile he began to appear in the legitimate theatre. In 1972 he acted as a Doctor in the Royal Court's production of Edna O'Brien's play A Pagan Place. With family friend Maggie Smith in the lead, he appeared in Peter Pan in a run during 1973 and 1974. Allen performed as both Mr Darling and Captain Hook in the production at the London Coliseum.[11] Allen made The Dave Allen Show in Australia (1975–1977) for his old employers, Channel 9. As well as being a comedian, Allen also made several serious television documentaries for ITV, beginning with Dave Allen in the Melting Pot (1969), looking at life in New York and dealing with issues such as racism and drugs.

Later programmes included Dave Allen in Search of the Great English Eccentric (1974) and Eccentrics at Play (1974), in which he looked at colourful characters with idiosyncratic passions. Allen's satirising of religious ritual, especially Catholic, throughout each episode of Dave Allen at Large caused minor controversy, which coupled with sometimes comparatively frank material, earned the show a risqué reputation. In 1977, the Irish state broadcaster RTÉ placed a de facto ban on Allen. Routines included sketches showing the pope (played by Allen) and his cardinals doing a striptease to music ("The Stripper") on the steps of St Peter's, aggressive priests beating their parishioners and other priests, priests who spoke like Daleks through electronic confessionals, and an extremely excitable Pope who spoke in a Chico Marx style accent as he ordered Allen to "getta your bum outta Roma!" In 1979 he played a troubled property man suffering a mid-life crisis in Alan Bennett's television play One Fine Day. New seasons of the comedy series, now titled Dave Allen, were broadcast from 1981 until 1990.

His final series for the BBC in 1990 caused controversy with a joke: "We spend our lives on the run. We get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, go to work by the clock, get up again, go to work – and then we retire. And what do they F****** give us? A clock." This prompted MP Robert Hayward to ask a parliamentary question about "offensive language" in broadcasting. In 1993, Allen returned to ITV, where he starred in the Dave Allen Show, which was his final regular television series. By the late 1990s, Allen was living quietly in semi-retirement at home in Holland Park, west London. A keen amateur artist, he continued to exhibit his paintings. He had given up cigarettes in the 1980s, having smoked regularly during earlier television appearances. A comedy skit in 1984 talked not only about quitting smoking, but hating the smell of smoke. The 90s saw him make occasional chat show appearances and discussed his career in the six-part The Unique Dave Allen (BBC, 1998), in between clips from his past BBC series.

As he grew older, he brought a rueful awareness of ageing to his material, with reflections on the antics of teenagers and the sagging skin and sprouting facial hair of age. He was presented with a lifetime achievement award at the British Comedy Awards in 1996. In 1964, Allen married actress Judith Stott, whom he had met in Australia. The marriage ended in divorce in 1983. Their son, Edward James Tynan O'Mahony (professionally Ed Allen), is also a comedian. Allen's hobbies included painting, which he became increasingly enthusiastic about in his later years. His first exhibition, Private Views, was held in Edinburgh in 2001. He died peacefully in his sleep at his home in Kensington, London, in 2005 at the age of 68. He was survived by Karin Tynan O'Mahony (née Stark), his wife of eighteen months but who had been his partner since 1986, and his three children from his first marriage: his children Edward and Jane, and his stepson Jonathan, a son of his first wife.

Three weeks after Allen's death, Karin gave birth to their son, Cullen.

Question: Which comedian used to end his show with the words "Goodnight and may your God go with you"?
Answer: Dave Allen